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Viewports and design layer order


Matt Overton

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6 hours ago, Matt Overton said:

Is there a button or switch somewhere that resets viewports design layer order to match the main file order?

 

I find something triggers viewports to keep their own order and after that every new layer created ends up at the top of the layer list regardless of it's file order.

 

Do you mean just in Navigation Palette ?

Beside their Stacking Order, you can sort them in NP by any order

of the Column Titles available by clicking once on the title to

sort and a second click to reverse.

Like Sorting by Name.

This will rearrange new Layers in the alphabetical order automatically.

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1 hour ago, JMR said:

Is there a setting to keep the DL list in the navigation palette in alphabetical order?

 

For some reason, the list always reverts to the stacking order eventually. I haven't found a setting for this.

 

 

Clicking on the Design Layer Name Header Tab of the Navigation Palette should do this.

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That's what I thought it should do - I can't figure out how and why they always revert back to the stacking order.

 

And it's not just me, it's our other users as well. Maybe we are hitting a key combination or something by accident...just don't know.

 

 

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On 7/12/2018 at 5:26 AM, Jonathan Pickup said:

try the Revert Stacking Order button.

select the viewport. 

go to the Object Info palette

Click on the Layers... button

Jonathan,

Is there a way to do this for multiple VP's?

If you select 2 VP's the option goes away, even if the layers used in the VP are the same.

I have 12 VP's on 6 sheets and they all are out of order.

Hoping there is a quick fix.

 

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9 hours ago, Jonathan Pickup said:

I didn't revert the order of the layers, but i was able to use the eyedropper tool to copy the layer order from one viewport to another.

 

here are the options I used.

Jonathan,

Thanks for the suggestion.

What happened was that layers were added after the VP creation and the new layers would not sort in the proper order.

Since the VP's are for multiple floors with different layers for some of the VP's, I changed the settings slightly and got a solution.

If you uncheck "Layer Visibility" and only have "Layer Overides" selected, it does exactly what I need.

Revert the Stacking on one VP, then pick up and then select ALL the VP's and Put Down.

ALL of the VP's keep their layer visibility but revert the stacking order.

Never would have thought to try this.

Thanks for the help. Much appreciated.

 

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